There are concerns that are not in this area, regarding privacy, access, fiduciary duty, and the right to contest automated decisions. These are all things that people want to address with regulation. People make the problem that they have clear and propose a remedy, then seek consensus on that issue.

But when the message coming from people is "We don't want that kind around here" then it falls much closer to the mark.

Sadly this isn't even the only comment equating LLM skepticism to racism, even more sadly I'm not even remotely surprised that there's HN commenters that think this way